The Center held the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) meeting on November 15 – 16 at Molecular Foundry at LBNL. The following world-renowned scientists have committed to serving on our SAB:
- Prof. Roberto Car (Princeton)
- Prof. Giulia Galli (Univ. of Chicago)
- Prof. Tony Heinz (Stanford)
- Dr. Mark Hybertsen (Brookhaven Lab)
- Prof. Angel Rubio (Director, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)
- Prof. Lin Lin (UC Berkeley)
The meeting agenda is provided below:
Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Building 67, Room 3111, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720
Friday–Saturday, November 15–16, 2019
AGENDA
Friday Morning Schedule
7:45 AM Shuttle Pickup at Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Downtown Berkeley
8:00 – 8:30 AM Registration, Discussion and Breakfast
8:30 – 9:15 AM Talk 1: Overview: Steven Louie (35+10 mins) – Overview of C2SEPEM: Vision, Strategy and Progress
9:15 – 9:45 AM Talk 2: Felipe da Jornada (25+5 mins) – New Ab Initio Formalisms for Excited-State Phenomena
9:45 – 10:15 AM Talk 3: Diana Qiu (25+5 mins) – Validation and Applications of Excited-State Codes for Energy Materials
10:15 – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 – 11:15 AM Talk 4: Eran Rabani (25+5 mins) – Stochastic Methods for Ground and Excited States
11:15 – 11:45 AM Talk 5: Mauro del Ben (25+5 mins) – Algorithms and Codes for HPC: Towards Exascale Computing
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch and Discussions
Friday Afternoon Schedule
1:00 –1:30 PM Talk 6: Chao Yang (25+5 mins) – Applied Mathematics and Numerical Methods Development in C2SEPEM
1:30 – 2:00 PM Talk 7: Feng Wang (25+5 mins) – Probing Berry Curvature by Intra-Exciton Optical Stark Effect
2:00 – 2:30 PM Talk 8: Summary: Steven Louie (25+5 mins) – Future Directions for C2SEPEM
Short Scientific Highlight Talks
2:30 – 2:45 PM Highlight 1: Yang-Hao Chan (12+3 mins) –Excitonic Effects in Optical-Field-Driven Quasi-2D Materials from Time-Dependent GW Approach
2:45 – 3:00 PM Highlight 2: Weiwei Gao (12+3 mins) – Accelerating Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory and GW Calculations Using Interpolative Separable Density Fitting
3:00 – 3:15 PM Highlight 3: Marina Filip (12+3 mins) – Dynamically Screened Excitons in Heteropolar Lead-Halide Perovskites
3:15 – 3:45 PM Break
3:45 – 4:00 PM Highlight 4: Zhenglu Li (12+3 mins) – Linear-Response GW Perturbation Theory: Method and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Oxide Superconductors
4:00 – 4:15 PM Highlight 5: Jonah Haber (12+3 mins) – Phonon-Limited Exciton Coherence Times and Diffusion in Crystalline Tetracene
4:15 – 4:30 PM Highlight 6: Wenjie Dou (12+3 mins) – Stochastic Resolution of Identity to Imaginary and Real-Time Second-Order Green’s Function: Ground-State and Quasi-Particle Properties
4:30 – 4:45 PM Highlight 7: Wenfei Li (12+3 mins) – Application of Linear-Scaling Stochastic-GW Method to Bilayer Heterojunctions of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides
4:45 – 5:00 PM Highlight 8: Chenchen Song (12+3 mins) – Stochastic Time-Domain Formulation of Bethe-Salpeter Equation
5:00 – 5:15 PM Highlight 9: Zili Fan (12+3 mins) – Fractured Stochastic Exchange Operator in Density Functional Theory
5:15 – 5:30 PM Highlight 10: Yashpal Singh (12+3 mins) – Diagonal and Low-Rank Approximation in GW Calculation
5:30 – 6:00 PM SAB Closed Session
6:15 PM Shuttle to Great China Restaurant
6:30 PM Dinner – Great China Restaurant (corner of Bancroft and Oxford)
Saturday Schedule
7:45 AM Shuttle Pickup at Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Downtown Berkeley
8:00 – 8:30 AM Breakfast and Discussions
8:30 – 9:00 AM Round Table Discussion with Young Researchers and SAB
9:00 – 10:30 AM SAB Executive Session and Preparation of Report (Closed Session)
10:30 – 11:00 AM SAB and Management Team Meeting
In Parallel
9:00 – 11:00 AM Postdocs/Students Interactions and Discussions
11:00 – 12:00 PM Lunch and Discussions
12:00 PM Adjournment of SAB